Water Project Crew Endangers Cyclists
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Yet another construction site fail on safety
Dummköpfe! Audi Blasted for Horrendous Car Ad
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With one simple image, the German auto manufacturer ignited a firestorm — in more ways than one.
Guest Column: Biking With Babies
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In the Netherlands, infants regularly ride in bikes. In the United States, there are mostly horror stories.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Speed limit setting needs to change (Forbes)
- Bicyclists need better infrastructure (ITS International)
- How to advocate for better bike lanes in your city (Bicycling)
- Miles of new bike lanes were added to Barcelona streets during shut-down (Bloomberg)
- BART rethinking its policing strategies (Transit Center)
- Sonoma County cuts some, but not all, road maintenance projects (Sonoma News)
- Sea level rise will mess up far-flung places in the Bay Area (SF Chronicle)
- California sues Uber and Lyft, again (Insurance Journal)
- Palo Alto is really liking its street dining scene (Palo Alto Online)
- State laws are working: cities are allowing new housing development (SF Chronicle)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
County Approves Reimagine L.A., Funding Shift Measure Will Be on November Ballot
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L.A. County voters will weigh in on Reimagine L.A. this November. The measure would shift ten percent of county funding from policing to community programs and services
Eyes on the Street: New Bike Lanes Go Up in Sierra Madre, Arcadia
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New bike lanes on Huntington Drive, First Avenue/Highland Oak Drive, Sierra Madre Boulevard, and South Baldwin Avenue
Oakland’s Quick-Build Protected Intersections are Safer
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Study shows positive results from the installation of protected intersections around the Lake Merritt BART station
Car Dominance Makes Non-White Neighborhoods Hotter
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If you've ever noticed that disinvested, predominantly Black neighborhoods just *feel* hotter than the tree-lined blocks of predominantly white communities...well, it's not just your imagination.
What Is a Feminist City?
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Does our environment support the daily activities, care work, and needs of women?
Today’s Headlines
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- Sausalito thinks about affordable housing on the waterfront (SF Chronicle)
- Costa Mesa gets a grant to reimagine a busy corridor (LA Times)
- Driving reductions during COVID are not reducing GHGs much (UC Riverside)
- UK bans SUV ads – SUVs are a major contributor to rising emissions (Guardian)
- Podcast: What it’s like to be a Black planner in California (CP&DR)
- Firefighters are responding to emergencies by bike in this Massachusetts town (Firehouse)
- High speed rail’s true barrier is space, not money (Governing)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Building a Better “Faster Bay Area” w/ Angie Schmitt
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A chat with Angie Schmitt, a past editor with Streetsblog USA and author of the upcoming book, "Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America"